Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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proverbiosBut you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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